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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-03
HOME, FARM, AND GARDEN.
Talks with the Farmer, Orchards.
Stock. Breeder, Poulterer, and
Housekesper.
Hints on House Decorations, Kitchen
Economy, and the prcscrya.
ton of Health.
THE FARM.
Concerning Oats.

4. have noticed that nearly al new varie-
ties of oats do we'll for year or two, and
then fall back and yield no better crops
than our common oats. This deterioration
I have noticed for years, and now we
hardly find crop of oats mp to the legal
standard Of tEirty-two pounds per bushel.
The average in this vicinity is not more
than twenty-five pounds to the bushel. l
nave studied for years to learn the cause
OF this trouble. The land is apparently
Just as good, We have better Implements
Tor the preparation of the seed-bed, special
fertilizers adaptedto the wants Of the crop,
yet no improvement.
My conclusion is that the difficulty lies
wholly with the seed. Fifty years ago it
was not uncommon to find whole fields of
oats Yielding forty or more pounds to the
Dtshel. There were no new-fangled oats
IN those days. Scientific writerb tell us
the soil was new that all crops were better,
which may be true to certain extent, yet
this is not the only reason. At that time
all grains were threshed with fail, and
only the best and plumpest grains were OBJ
tanned, while the shrunken and imperfect
grain was left in the straw. The grain
was then winnowed by shaking from a
9. shovel in strong wind driving through
the barn floor. and the head Of the heap
s Ths ia. put end away ~ t tss i sssp
was fed out. since the threshing ma
chimes have come into general use, one
can hardly find farmer who threshes by
hand. If machine leaves even the
semblance Of an oat in the straw it will be
looked upon as M imperfect machine and
most likely be ordered out of the barn.
There is no head of the heap coming from
the machine, and good and poor are mixed
together and sown year after year. Is il
any wonder that oats deteriorate?
What would be thought of farmer who
should plant all the corn that grew In the
hill, nubbins and all? He would be called
insane. Yet this is just what we do with
oats and then wonder ut their failure. Any
one can satisfy himself, if he will look
over field of oats just after it is headed
out. He will find all grades of growth
from tall, wel-tormed, stocky heads, down
to plants which have not sufficient vitality
to make head. When harvested one will
find all lengths Of straw, from six inches
to three feet, and oil grades Of oats, from
zero up to forty pounds per bushel.
My practice of late years is to allow the
machine to blow hard enough to blow owe,
the light oats from those saved for seed,
and find my oats improving from year tc
year. A better method still would be tc
thresh the bundles lightly with q fail, and
thus get the best of the grain for seed, and
then. if one chooses, to run the bundles
through machine. Let brother farmers
try this experiment. and report the result il
future years. Cor. american Cultivator
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-03
THE STOCK RANCH.
w;aech the Fee. Of Four Gotta,

Watch the Feet If Four Gotta.
A writer in the American Cultirator
gives some timely and practical advice in
the following: The breeder should not
forget that the feet of young stock require
attention now, as much as any time in their
lives, and more than in summer. The rea-
son is that young stock is generally con-
fined ut this time Of the year to yards, that
are covered with straw, and there is little
or no wear upon the rim of the feet. The
feet go on growing larger, whilst the lower
foot binds it and pinches the internal ma
chlnery of the foot. Moreover, colts that
that are not given plenty of room for exer-
else are likely to kick in their stalls, and
thus receive injuries that will terminate
in permanent injury. The toes, too, will
G. ow to excessive length, throwing the
strain unduly on the back tendons, and I'M
duly pinching the anterior joints of the foot.
speak from what have seen when say
that neglect of the feet in colts is a fruitful
source of ringbonc and other kindred dis
eased conditions of the foot. The colt
should be taken into barn with plank
floor, held by one man whilst another takes
sharp two-inch chisel and mallet. If
the colt is not, as he should be, broken to
have his feet handled, the surplus hoo1
can be easily. quickly and safely removed,
the heels will have chance 10 spread and
the feet will approach at least their natural
bearing. A better way would be to have
the feet pared oil round the foot from be.
low, rs the angles of the bars cannot be
got at under the former method, but il the
COLTS not broken to handling or "gentled,
as some call it, it will be better to try thu
former method.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-03

If the seeds good the cutting of potatoes
to pieces with two eyes should give good
results. In cutting always end dt to to
possible, as it serves as plant food in the
early stages Of growth.
SOME of the garden crops are very hardy
and can stand slight frost. Onions, peas,
beets, and lettuce. if sown in rows early.
or as soon as the warmth of the ground
permits, will make good growth before
some other crops are put in.
A GRAPEVINE arbor is considered an
excellent place for the beehive, as it pro-
tects against the sun in summer, but should
be thick enough to serve as wind brake
in winter. In very cold climates the hive
should be placed in the cellar.
Do NOT try to keep geese unless oil the
conditions are favorable. Geese may be
kept at very small cost or they may en-
pond and pasture will enable them to se-
cure their food with but little aid.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-03
THE PoULTRY-YARD.
Zoos for Hafoh tina.

Eggs yOF k10t0eStny.
I have watched my hons carefully during
the laying season, and am satisfied that it
pays we'll to select eggs for Matching with
as my experience teaches me that they pro-
duce the strongest and best formed chicks.l
l would as soon set pointed egg rs On,
oval one provided there was no decided
irregularity in the shape. have found,
that very large eggs, or those badly shaped.
always produce badly shaped chickens. Z,
can't see that pointed eggs indicate weak-i
ness or q tendency to disease, for the
reason that some Of my very best hens
always lay pointed eggs. I have noticed
from time to time. rules for selecting eggs
failed in my practice. have noticed,
however. that where the cocks are excep-
tionaly vigorous, there is large proportion
of males.ACor. Rural Ne,c Yorker.
G..tnea Io,cls.
Itused to be thought that the guinea hen
would lay more eggs in q year than the or
now rs compared with some of the best
laying breeds, thus showing the improves
ment made in poultry as regards egg pro-
duction, as it is probable that guinea fowls
are as good layers as they ever were. We
have, however, improved the producing
powers Of our fowls mainly by importing
better breeds, rather than breeding up this
characteristic in what we had. Possibly if
more care were taken to select eggs from
the most productive guinea hens to breed.
from, their laying capacities would be i'm.
proved. The fact that as commonly bred,
with no care, they are good layers, indicates
that they are good stock to experiment with
in this direction. 1t is quite common
whore hawks abound to keep few guinea
hens rs a protection TO other fowls. Their
loud, discordant screech frightens away
their feathered enemies as efectually 90
could be done by an armed guard.
soft Food for Laying Hens.
There is no denying the fact that the best
food for inducing hens to lay is to mix
mess of ground grain early in the morning,
for the reason that in using such food one
can give variety at q single feeding. Any
thing suitable may be added to the soft
food, and it is not necessary that it consist
of ground grain alone, as chopped clover,
mashed potatoes, mashed turnips, bran,
corn meal, middlings, ground oats. ground
meat, or even skim milk may be used, ac-
cording to the supply or convenience. The
great value of soft food does not consist
only in allowing the poultryman to give q
variety, which, however, as We stated. is q
great point, but 1t serves another purpose,
which is, that when the fowls come off the
roost in the morning with empty crops and
hungry, the soft food is very quickly di-
gested, and, If warmed, 1t serves as an in.
vigorator. When hard grains are given in
the morning they must first be prepared by
the gizzard, which entails more or less de-.
lay before they serve us food, but the soft
food very quickly passes through the giz-
card and supplies the bird quickly. At
night. however. when the fowls are not
hungry, they should be fed whole grain, as
they will then have ample time to grind
| such before passing it on as nourishment,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-03
THE DAIRY.
Eeedt,,o Co,cs.

AC0t%"sU SVScos
Charles 81. Hayes OF Portsmouth,, n. H.,
who reports best five COWS average 3,645
quarts of milk, or within fraction Of ten
quarts per day for the year, from his
Ayrshire herd, and 3,263 quarts as best ten
COWS average, equal to SIG quarts pei
day during the year, feeds his cows as fol-
lows: During the summer, pasture of in
ferior character; but the COWS have each
night and morning one-half bushel OF
brewers grain and two to four quarts of
shorts, and in the fall corn fodder in addi-
ton; and in the winter three-quarters
bushel of grains, four quarts OF shorts,
one quart of cotton-seed meal, and roots
occasionally; dry corn fodder, one feed,
hay two feeds, each day. The cattle COM
mence their morning meal at $50 in winter
end continue feeding two hours. They are
watered at 10 o'clock, and OF $3.50 p. m.
commence their evening feed. They con-
tinue to eat for two hours and the barn is
closed up for the night. Mr.. Hayes con-
siders one COW raised on the farm to be
worth any two common cows that can be
bought. No man who keeps COWS can af-
ford to neglect the weighing of milk. He
will meet with surprises every month, and
before the year is out he will be feeding
cows for the butcher which he supposes
were among the best milkers, and in five
years his herd will be worth, for practical
purposes, more than those herds which are
not fed and MIXED understandingly.
Entter that REFUSES to Come
When q butter maker has but one COW,
or only few cows, the usual difficulty
when butter won't come is that the cream
is kept too long to get enough for churn-
ing, that it gets too old and sour. This
may be avoided by adding milk enough to
make the necessary bulk and churning
oftener. When it is desirable to keep
cream, sailing it heavily will help to preserve
it and make chumins easier. When there is
habtual trouble about churning, scalding
the new milk by setting it over kettle of
boiling water will help the cream to rise
and make the cEurning easy.
When the cream IS in proper condition,
churning is largely a question OF temper
ature. There is seldom case in which
butter will not come at some degree. Late
in tl,a milking season when tue churning
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-03
The farmers Fruit Garden.

The fact that farmers are longer lived
than men of other occupations is largely
due to their life in the open air. They
ought to have Aesher and better supplies
of vegetables and fruit than any other
class. 1t would be money in their pocket
in+saving doctor bills if they lived up to
the advantages they might easily enjoy in
this respect. If the farmer will get the
trees and protect them by fences his family
will generally see that they have the care
requisite to make them productive. A
good supply of fruit of various kinds is
the very best means of making home and
farm life attractive to the younger men,
bers of the farmers family.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-03
Glste-Pai,.t for Floors.

A cheap and durable paint for floors,
which will dry so rapidly as to give very
little Inconvenience in putting on, is made
in this way: To three pounds of spruce
yellow OF yellow ochre add one and one
half pounds of dry white lead and rub we'll
together. Dissolve two ounces glue in one
quart of water, stirring often until smooth
and nearly boiling. For large floors double
or triple, these proportions will be needed,
Thicker the glue water after the manner
Of mush until it will spread smoothly upon
the floor. Use common paint and
apply hot, which is very essential. To Sc.
cure this the can may be kept over an ole
stove or kettle Of Goals. This paint will
fill all crevices Of rough floor, such as is
often found in kitchens. It will dry soon,
and when dry apply boiled linseed oil with
clean brush. In few hours it will be
dry enough to use by laying papers or mats
to step on for few days. The best method
of cleaning such floor is to wash in hot
suds with little ammonia added occa-
sienally if the paint is much soiled, always
wipine itcarefully with mop wrung from
clear water.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-03

PEOPLE who tell big yarns ought to be
compelled to take out special lie-acnse.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-03
Lice Stock Notes.


In Australia many weol-grewers shear
their sheep by machinery driven by steam.
FEED plenty of carrots and plenty of
grain. keep the cows warm, and you may
have fairly yellow butter in winter.
BREEDERS in Herefordshire, England,
are said to have pocketed about 10000
from American stockmen in the last five
years.
SCOTTISH stockmen are alone reported
to have lost $4,000 at the late Christmas
market at Smithfeld on account Of de-
preston in stock.
been frozen to death in Western Kansas
during tho cold weather, and the severity
of the winter is said to have done good
deal of damage among the focks and herds
of Texas.
D1ARRHEA in calves is successfully
treated by giving the whites Of eggs beaten
up with water into an emulsion, eight eggs
being used to pint Of water, half table,
spoonful taken at q dose and repeated
every two hours.
REMEMBER the young animals are con-
stantly increasing in value, and the better
You feed the sooner you will mature them
and to better profit than if allowed to ge,
poor in winter and require half the summer
to again bring them in proper condition.
| A CONTEMPORARY thinks there should
be prohibitory law against feeding
brewers grains TO dairy stock. But brewers
grains are not inimical if fed perfectly
fresh. The trouble is they are often al
lowed to heat, even to got putrid. In this
case they are nearly as vile food as dis
tillery slop.
| ACCORDING to an English writer, the
prehistoric horse of the age of the cave
man, as shown by carving on horn. antlers,
etc., was even smaller than the Shetland
pony, had head and neck very large in
proportion to the body, coarse and heavy
name, and was altogether clumsy sort OF
| animal.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-03
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Hot Ifater Batl.s.

A good way to season glass and china SO
that they will remain sound if exposed to
sudden heat or cold is to place the articles
in cold water, bringing it gradually up to
boiling point, and then allowing it to cool
very slowly, taking several hours to do it.
The commoner the materials the more care
is required, the very best glass and china
is seasoned before it is placed on the mar
ket.
If the wares are properly seasoned in
water without fear Of fracture excepting ia
frosty weather, when, if they have been
exposed 10 tho effects of the cold. care
must be taken not to put them into too hot
water suddenly,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-03
General Lee.

Below is found portrait of Robert E,
Lee taken while holding the Presidency Of
washington College, ut Lexington, Va.
The Labor enquirer., 1887-11-19

Their conduct thrduehout their
long imprisonment and tedious
trial was unsurpassed.
"No!one heard them say they
were sorry for their Iabors in the
Cause of Humanity; no one heard
them say one word against the ig-
|norant wage slaveswho denounced
them.
Comrades. let the light that
'shone out in those mems lives
be the light that will guide US on,
and their last words cheer US until
we have succeeded in emancipat-
ing down-trodden humanity"
Robert Blumenberg recited a
poem by Ferdinand Freilegrath
the German poet.
II. Macdonald made a short
and fitting address in the course
of which he pointed out the fact
that no cause has ever yet in the
history of the world been won
without martyrs blood. "Thefght
for labor's emancipation will go
on and on till victory is won.
Peace to the ashes of our muir
dered comrades"
The contribution box being
PASSED among the congregation
returned containing S24.35.
The choifstarted the "Marseil-
laise" and theNpeople joined in the
grand anthem and swelled the
chorus to a glorious volume as the
vast throng moved out from the
scene of a memorial service none
who participated in will ever for
get.
The Labor enquirer., 1887-11-19
THE SAVAGE WAY.
How the Indian Treats an Injury.
Old Time Methods.

The savage is emphatically the
child of nature. He lives close to
nature, his only education is
gained in natures school.
When the Indian receives an
injury, he does not seek a cure in
mineral poisons, but binds on the
simple leaf, administers the herbal
tea, and, with natures aid, comes
natural recovery.
Our rugged ancestors, who
pierced the wilderness, built their
uncouth but comfortable log cab
ins and started the clearings in
the woods, which in time became
the broad, fertile fields of the
modern farmer, found in roots and
herbs that lay close at hand ma
ture's potent remedies for all their
common ailments. 1t was only
in very serious cases they sent for
old "saddle-bags" with his physic,
which quite as often killed as
cured.
Latter day society has wandered
too far away from nature, in every
way. for its own good. Our grand
fathers and grandmothers lived
wholesomer, purer. better, health
ier; more natural lives than we do.
Their minds we're not filled with
noxious isms, nor their bodies sat-
urated with poisonous drugs.
Is it not time to make change,
to return to the simple vegetable
preparations of our grandmothers,
which contained the power and
potency of nature as remedial
agents, and in all the ordinary all
ments were efficacious, at least
harmless?
The proprietors of Warmers
Log Cabin Remedies have thought
so. and have put on the market
a number of these pure vegetable
preparations. made from formulas
secured after patient searching
into the annals of the past. so that
those who want them need not be
without them.
Among those Log Cabin reme-
dies will be found Log Cabin Sar-
saparilla." for the blood; LOG
Cabin Hops and Buchu Remedy"
tonic and STOMACH remedy; Log
Cabin Cough and Consumption
Remedy" Log Cabin Scalpine, ;"
for strengthening and renewing
the hair; LOG Cabin Extract, 7"
for both external and intergal ap-
plication; LOG Cabin Liver Pills"
Log Cabin Rose Cream" an old
but effective remedy for catarrh,
and LOG Cabin Plasters. All
these remedies are carefully pre-
pared from recipes which were
found. after long investigation, to
have been those most successfully
used by our grandmothers of Eye
olden time" They are the simple,
vegetable, efiicacious remedies of
Log Cabin days.
The Labor enquirer., 1887-11-19
IN MEl(ORIAM.
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Upon the scaffold have been
offered up many lives for human
Nv but their is no record OF the
sacrifice of nobler men nor q
crander cause than the one for
which our martyrs died. Their
lives we're spent in the struggle
for the rights Of those who were
TOO helpless to fight their own
battle. They stood bold and fear
lessly as the champions of those
who bear the burden of ceasless
toll which brings scarce the brute's
reward enough to eat.
"Our murdered comrades leave
behind them records as clear and
bright and noble as the record
left by grand old John Brown who
laid down his life that his brother
man might be free.
TO the orphans OF our murder
ed comrades we extend now our
tendcrest feelings Of pity, and we
do further purpose that our SYM
pathy for those fatherless chill
dren shall not end with mere
words OF commiseration, but that
We shall consider it our solemn
duty to see that they do not want
for bread. They shall indeed be
the Wards of Liberty the chill
dren Of the people.
AT the graves OF o ur comrades
to-day are thousands Of the men
and women who knew them well
and respected and loved them.
Over those graves are shed the
tears Of strong men whose hearts
are wrung with sorrow. Over those
graves fall the scalding tears of
women, the heart-broken wives
whose loss cannot be computed
with poor, barren words.
"Children-fatherless orphans
cry for the father whose step will
never again be heard on threshold;
for the father whose voice has
been hushed by a murderous
hand.
Comrades, let US mingle our
tears in spirit with those of the
souowing ones whose protectors
have been taken from them by a
band Of heartless conspirators
whose object in taking the lives
OF our brothers was to crush the
voice and spirit of freedom
Miss Mccarthy spoke in SUBJ
stance:
Comrades, duty calls me to-
day to to speak on topic that
ought to be dear to the heart of
every American citizen.
Our brothers died for the cause
of humanity. 1t is better that that
cause would claim martyrs to die
for it, than that the cause should
die for the want of martyrs to
suffer for it. 1t is far better that
those men have given up their
lives that we shall realize the one
fact that we are not hopeless in
the determination to carry out the
principles of free speech and JUS
tice under the American flag.
These are our principles as So
cialists, and il this cause claims us
one by one to offer up the lives
that God and our country has
given us, we are here and ready,
every one of US.
These monsters will have a
bloody work on their hands If they
continue the slaughter of the chill
dren of America. We will not be
tramplcd under foot. We are not
to be frightened from the right by
fear of a gallows, or fear of a gull
lotinc, from. any class who are de-
termined to rule the people by
power and by avarice and by vii
lainy. =
I'VE mourn here for our fellow
creatures, who died like men.
laughing at the tyranny Of their
oppresSors and abusers of the con-
S'Itution of the American govern
ment They died laughing in the